Rebecca & Hugh at Borgo di Tragliata: Eleven Years, and Everything After

Before Vancouver, before the flights to Italy, there was a school in Ireland. Rebecca and Hugh met there, eleven years before their wedding: time enough for a love story to grow alongside the people living it.

On 17 March 2026, that story brought them to Borgo di Tragliata, in the countryside outside Rome. They thought marrying on St Patrick’s Day was good luck. And if luck wanted to join the guest list, it would have seemed rather rude to turn it away.

Around a hundred and ten people gathered, mostly Irish, with journeys beginning as far away as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Rebecca and Hugh now lived in Vancouver. Bringing friends and family together was one of the deepest reasons for this celebration.

They had fallen for the Borgo’s rustic character and the chance for everyone to stay together for three days. A welcome at Borgo Antico, accompanied by The Gloves’ Dynamic Duo, gave that reunion its first musical setting. Italy’s food, wine and convivial spirit had already won them over. Here was somewhere to stay a little longer.

The wedding day began with Rebecca’s preparations, with Sabrina Galluzzo taking care of her hair and makeup. After eleven years together, there was still something new about getting ready to meet Hugh like this: within a day imagined for them, with their loved ones finally close.

In the Massello garden, The Gloves’ piano accompanied the symbolic ceremony. The yellow bridesmaids’ dresses and Debra Flower’s flowers became part of the setting for their promise, alongside the greenery and the Borgo’s rustic character.

The photographs show guests gathered in the garden. Before them, two people who had already shared a substantial part of their lives were choosing a new shape for that commitment. “Together” held eleven years of memories, with plenty of room still ahead.

On the Massello terrace, the aperitif gave the day space to breathe. Music continued to accompany it; drinks in hand and friends gathered in the photographs tell of a more relaxed moment between the ceremony and dinner.

When people live far apart, being in the same place has a particular value. That afternoon made Rebecca and Hugh’s wish tangible: their world close by, with time to spend together.

That closeness returns in Illaria Frabetti’s photographs: their faces beside one another, a laugh, a walk hand in hand among the olive trees. Alongside the scenes shared with their guests, there is this smaller space belonging to the two of them. The celebration could hold both things: the pleasure of a large reunion and the familiar ease of being a couple.

Dinner brought everyone inside Massello. Background music made room for words from Rebecca, Hugh, her father and his brother: four voices connected to the same story from different places.

After eleven years, a couple has people around them who know their beginnings and others who have shared more recent chapters. Bringing them to one table brought those parts of their lives closer, too. In one black-and-white photograph, Rebecca raises her glass: a simple gesture within a day built around the pleasure of being there.

Alongside still photographs, the couple had chosen a moving account of the wedding from Fashion Video – Umberto Atterga. That choice belonged to the same wish to carry something of the reunion home, for when the Borgo was far away again and life in Vancouver resumed.

The cake cutting came before the party. In the photographs, Rebecca and Hugh kiss between fountains of sparks: a bright image with the two of them at its centre.

After the promises and the words at dinner, this passage had a different lightness. The day was approaching its freest chapter, but it still had time for a kiss. Soon, it would be the music’s turn to change the pace.

For their first dance, they chose “Love You for a Long Time” by Maggie Rogers. After eleven years, the title found a natural resonance in their story, holding something of the time already shared while leaving the future open.

In the photographs, guests surround them, gathered close to that space for two. Rebecca and Hugh in the middle, their world around them: there was much of the wedding’s meaning in that simple arrangement.

The familiarity of a long love remained within a new moment. From here, the story could move from tenderness into celebration without losing its thread.

In the Teatro at Borgo di Tragliata, the reunion found a different kind of energy.

The Gloves’ live show brought eight musicians, male and female lead vocals and a horn section. From the ceremony piano to the force of the full band, music had travelled through the day with Rebecca and Hugh. Now came its crescendo: the stage, the rhythm, the exchange with the guests.

The party photographs show that participation. Raised hands, loosened ties, people turning towards the camera beneath blue lights. Rebecca laughs with her bouquet in hand; beside her, a guest points towards the lens. The closeness they had wanted at the beginning of the journey had become louder, freer and full of movement.

The couple’s tastes crossed indie, pop rock, the eighties and nineties and contemporary artists, including Olivia Dean and Maggie Rogers. Songs from earlier years do have one small fault: they remember our ages with occasionally excessive accuracy.

With the band drawing guests into the celebration, there was room to sing, dance and let go together. Then the DJ took over from the live show and carried the evening onwards. The wish to gather their loved ones had travelled through the garden, the terrace and the dinner table; in the Teatro, it became a shared dance floor.

Rebecca and Hugh had met at school in Ireland. Eleven years later, people from across their world had crossed oceans to reach them here. For three days, the Borgo had given those distances a little respite.

At the centre were the two of them: a familiar hand to hold, a new promise, and everything that came after.

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